Ag News: California Cage-free Initiative

**A California initiative requiring egg-laying hens to be “cage-free” and would prohibit the sale of pork and veal from animals raised in housing banned in 2008 was approved for the November ballot.

In a recent Capital Report, the National Pork Producers Council wrote “Animal-rights groups, including the Humane Society, collected more than 660,000 signatures for the measure, well over the 366,000 needed.

According to agweb.com, California voters approved an initiative in 2018 that banned so-called battery cages for egg-laying hens, gestation stalls for sows and crates for veal calves.